Outpatient ERCP-everybody is doing it: does this make it right?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-126

  Pfau, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLANGITIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMBULATORY CARE; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 45349100354     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.02.025     Document Type: Editorial

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